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I believe this is a sci-fi-inspired pipe dream. There are no worlds (planets, moons, dwarf planets, etc.) in our solar system where human life is sustainable without artificial habitats and space suits, and there are no worlds in our solar system where the conditions and resources exist for a...

The right front tire (original) on my 2018 Model 3 loses air very slowly. I think it's been doing this for less than a year. The TPMS warns me about once every 2 or 3 weeks and I have to put air in it. Note: I know next to nothing about cars or tires. Should I be concerned? Should I just keep...

I am renting a Nissan Leaf while my Tesla is being repaired. I got it home, plugged the 120 v. charger into the wall and plugged it into the car. From the front of the car looking through the windshield, there are three blue lights. The left-most two are solid, and the right-most one is...

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED: Yesterday a friend asked for a ride. I picked her up and dropped her off. On the way home I was stopped at a stop sign waiting to turn right. The car ahead of me made the turn but then there were more cars approaching, so I pulled up to the line and stopped. I...

Today I got in my car, which unlocked with the card key since I was not taking my phone with me (I often do this) but the screen remained blank and when I set my card key on the reader and stepped on the brake pedal, the pedal would not go down and nothing happened. The door would not open the...

I was talking to my broker about some investments she was recommending. Nice, safe, dividend-paying funds, like all my investments. I'm not a risk-taker. But I have some TSLA that I bought when I first got my Roadster, when it was around $35 or $40 pre-split, and the subject came up. Sometimes I...

I own some solar bonds. They are ten-year 5% bonds. They pay interest twice a year and to get my interest I have to log into the web site and initiate a transfer to my bank. For the past several days I've been trying to log in without success. The website used to be solarbonds dot solarcity dot...

Don't really know how new the app is. It's new to me. Some time ago, I don't recall exactly, the Tesla app on my tablet, that I use for checking my Powerwall's SoC and stats, quit working. It demanded that I log in and would not let me log in. It finally occurred to me that maybe the app needed...

First let me say I'm a total Tesla fanboy. I hate gasoline and cars that burn it. I've been driving electric for fifteen years, since I got my Zap Xebra. Then I got the Roadster. Now I have a Model 3, LR RWD with EAP and the fancy interior. And I love it. I also own some shares of TSLA which I...

Today I was at a friend's house in an unfamiliar part of town. I set Nav to Home to get me back to the highway. Once there I tried to cancel the navigation so I wouldn't have to listen to the nav lady giving me directions I didn't need. The CANCEL button was greyed out and I could not cancel it...

Here in Hawai'i, as I presume in some other states, every car has to get an annual safety inspection. Private shops are licensed to perform the inspection and charge a small fee. So I went to a shop near me, as my sticker expires this month. I waited my turn and gave the guy my registration and...

I don't invest in individual stock issues, and I don't "trade." My investments are in mutual funds which I hold for the long term, and some diversified bond holdings for income. But when I really like what a company is doing I sometimes put a little bit of money in it so that I can feel like I'm...

I hope this is the right place for this. When I got my solar install (36 Solar Edge panels and two Tesla Powerwalls) for the house (ignoring for now the cottage) the installer told me my estimated pay-back time (taking the tax credit into account) was around five years. I wondered how he came...

Saw lots of whales today, some of them quite close up when they surfaced very near my two-man outrigger canoe. I and a friend paddled about 12 miles this morning. Between paddling, resting, and a very short swim, we were out for four hours. It was a gorgeous calm sunny day. There are huge stinky...

I was reading a book and there was a character who had restored an old muscle car to pristine condition, "from the axles up." It had a humongous V-8 engine, and was so enormously powerful that it could do zero to 60 mph in eight seconds. Made me smile. :)

Yesterday evening after dark I was watching a streaming show on the internet. Suddenly the dim fluorescent lights in the tv room started to flicker wildly, and then went dark. I don't recall if the tv went dark when the flickering started or when the lights went dark. After maybe ten seconds...

It gets hot here on Maui. My house is air conditioned (for free, via solar) but there are no A/C vents into the garage, and yesterday afternoon I measured the temp (with an infrared thermometer gun) at 90° F. I could get a little cool air in if I left the door to the garage open, letting some...

I've actually had my solar for almost two months, but it was turned on a few days into my electric utility billing cycle. So I've just gotten the bills for my first fill billing cycle with solar. This is for a 30-day cycle. I use a little over one MWh per month. I pulled 20 kWh from the grid. I...

The Pacific Cancer Foundation runs an annual event to raise money. (No, I'm not going to ask anybody here for money. I'm not even going to give my donation page. This post is about my excitement to go on a paddling voyage.) "It's not a race. It's a voyage," says the web site for the event. The...

I have the latest version of the Tesla app on my iPhone SE. Because of my new solar system with Powerwall, I sometimes stop charging the car before it reaches the set level. For example, the sun goes down, the charge is not as high as I'd like, but high enough, so I stop charging until the next...

After several months of waiting for the installation, the installer switched on my system today. Whoopee! I've wanted solar for well over a decade, but never lived anywhere I could get it until now. It got turned on late in the day so the Powerwalls didn't get much charge and are empty now, but...

This afternoon I drove to the doctor's office (routine test) and the car worked fine. When I left, I backed out of the parking space but the backup camera didn't work. The screen showed the guide lines but no image. No biggie. But I got onto the highway and had no autopilot or TACC. (No icons...

In north Kihei, HI (on Maui) the Maui Veterans Highway coming down from Kahului becomes the Pi'ilani Highway heading down towards Wailea at the point where North Kihei Road meets the highway. From North Kihei Road you can turn left onto Maui Veterans Highway or right onto Pi'ilani Highway. (Or...

Back in SpokaneI had 240 v. 50 a. in my garage on a NEMA 14-50 outlet. Here in Maui I only have 120 v. in the garage. 120 v. is plenty to get all the charge I need, because I don't drive a lot and I have the LR battery. (Didn't know I'd be moving here when I ordered the car.) Pretty soon I'm...

Just picked up my car at the port and drove home. NAV thought I was way far away and driving crosswise through streets and buildings. Anybody got any idea what's going on? Thanks. First-production Model 3, not using the latest firmware because it came through while the car was in transit and I...

Recently I've had problems with my keyboard becoming unresponsive for anywhere from one or two keystrokes, up to 10 or 15 seconds. This does not happen on another chat board I access using the same equipment. This is making it very frustrating to post. Original iPad Pro running iOS 12.2 using...

Today I drove my Model 3 from Spokane to the port of Seattle. Matson will ship it to Maui, where, if there were a connecting road around the south end of the island, you could drive a LR Model 3 all the way around the island twice on a charge. So no more long drives. Matson requires electric...

I have commented before that the screen often shows the car next to me positioned way over the line into my lane, when the actual car is right where it belongs, in the center of its lane. So yesterday I was stopped at a light and watching the screen image of the car behind me in the lane...

I've been out of touch since fall so have not followed developments. I'm wondering if people who paid for FSD have yet received any features that are not also available to people who have EAP? I bought EAP when I originally ordered the car, and I'm very happy with it. I notice that the...

Has anyone used Matson to ship a Model 3? I'm wondering because the key card is unlike anything any car has had before, and I wonder if the folks at Matson who drive the car onto and off of the ship will know what they are doing. Will they know to lock the car after parking it on the ship so it...

I haven’t been on the board lately because I’m in Maui for the winter and just have my tablet here, which isn’t the greatest for posting to chat boards. But I’ve decided to move here and I have a question about the driveway of a house I’m considering making an offer on. This driveway is not as...

Yesterday, as I might have mentioned elsewhere, I had to drive the Prius to Seattle, so that it can be shipped to Maui where I'll be spending the winter. The condo I'll be in does not have a plug for the Model 3 so it has to be the Prius. 4 1/2 hours of driving plus a cumulative 20 minutes or so...

A related but different question to the "Do you regret buying FSD" poll. Tesla has promoted the "FSD" option package with the promise that at some undetermined time in the future, after the software is developed and regulatory approval is received, Model 3 cars whose owners have paid for the...

For those who have paid for FSD, do you regret your decision? If Tesla offered to refund your money and treat your car as plain EAP would you take the money? For those who did not buy FSD at the time of purchase, do you wish you had taken advantage of the lower price? If Tesla gave you a week...

I got a new garage door opener because my old one died. (After 20 years.) Tried to program Homelink. First of all, it wants you to stand outside the car and point the remote at the front bumper until the car sees it (which can take up to 30 seconds). But of course I cannot tell when the car sees...

When I first got my Model 3, I was scared to use autopilot for about the first week. When I did try it I went onto the freeway (ideal case use) and engaged it briefly. I actually did not like it at all at first, but over time I got more confident, and of course it helped my confidence a lot as...

I would never try the experiment, and I strongly advise everyone reading this to NOT try the experiment. But I'm wondering what the car does if someone does not respond to the "hold the wheel" warning. Does anyone know? Please don't try it. Just, does anyone know of documentation?

As folks may be aware I'm on my Canada hiking trip. About a week ago I charged the car to full in Revelstoke and then drove to Nakusp where I spent the night. In the morning I drove to the staging area near Burton, BC, where I left the car for a week to go up to a hiking lodge. There's no...

As I've posted elsewhere, I'm about to take my annual long hiking trip up to Canada. I will be at several different wilderness hiking lodges for a week to ten days at a time. The car gets parked at a meeting area or staging area and I go up to the lodge and come back to it when I leave the...

Soon I'll be driving from Spokane, WA, to Revelstoke, BC, by way of the supercharger at Kelowna, BC, in my Model 3. Today I took it out for an approximately one-hour drive in hot weather. I set the A/C to 74 degrees, which was comfortable. Terrain is low gentle rolling hills, and the road was a...

The Model 3 does not come with a spare tire. That's kind of weird, for a car that's otherwise suitable for road trips. My Roadster came with a can of Fix-a-flat at least. The Model 3 didn't even come with that. I'm wondering what folks do. Carry a can of Fix-a-flat? Modern tires don't get flats...

Another question related to my upcoming trip: Does the navigation take into account the effect of mountains on range when deciding if you can make it to the next supercharger? And will it tell you if you try to program a trip that you won't have enough range for? I will be taking a route I've...

So as I've posted elsewhere, I'm going to be taking a long road trip up to Canada soon. In Canada, it's highly recommended, if not actually required, to have your headlights on during the day. Can anybody tell me how much this will affect my range? I presume not a lot, since they are LEDs, but...

I decided to park the Model 3 at the airport when I went on my trip last week. Partly so I would not have to drive the stinker, and because it's convenient to have my car there when I get back, and for a ten-day trip the cost of parking is as near as makes no difference the same as taking a cab...

Today when I went to the car the phone unlocked it, but when I tried to put it in gear it wouldn't go. My phone was in my left-hand pocket, so without taking it out, I sort of raised the pocket so it would not be quite so shielded by my body from the sensor to my right. The car then went into...

I've got my Roadster listed on AutoTrader. This morning I got this text, copied and pasted so you see it exactly as it came, except that I've deleted his email address: Note the bad punctuation, and especially his request for pictures of the engine. I guess my real question is, what does he...

I don't generally post in Off Topic, and I'm not that much of a movie buff, but I wanted to post this because this has got to be the weirdest movie I can ever remember. It's not a great movie. It's not a movie I'd tell people they've got to run right out and rent, unless I know that they love...

Nobody ever posts when there's nothing wrong, so I just though I would. As far as I can tell, the fit & finish of my car, outside and inside, are all as perfect as my eye can detect. A few quibbles about firmware, which I hope will be addressed in future updates. But visually the car seems...

I'm looking into the possibility of moving to Maui. I'm still in the early stages, but I'm wondering if Tesla Energy operates in Maui? Solar is popular there because electric rates are extremely high and sunlight is plentiful. But the electric utility is already fully subscribed, so a new...

This morning I was doing some stuff in the garage without my phone. The car was quiet. I mention this for background. I went out to the garage with the phone, and the car would not unlock. But it did start making a very soft humming noise, and the front louvers starting whirring back and forth...